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Researching the web

Skill Scout-AI-Labs/scout-skills/skills/researching-the-web

Agent Skills for using Scout: web research, sourced answers, company enrichment, structured extraction, monitoring. Works in Claude Code, Claude.ai, the Agent SDK, and Vercel eve.

Install
npx -y skills add Scout-AI-Labs/scout-skills --skill researching-the-web

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Research a question using the live web with Scout. Use when the user asks you to research a topic, gather sources, fact-check a claim, write a briefing or report from current information, or answer something your training data can't cover on its own. Plans sub-questions, searches and reads real pages, and writes a cited answer.

SKILL.md

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Researching the web with Scout

Use this when a question needs current, sourced information rather than recall. Scout handles live search and reliable scraping; you handle the reasoning.

How to reach Scout

  • If the Scout MCP server is connected, use its tools: scout_search, scout_scrape, scout_extract.
  • Otherwise call the API directly with curl (the key is in SCOUT_API_KEY):
curl -s https://core.usescout.sh/v1/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCOUT_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries":["<query>"],"limit":6}'

curl -s https://core.usescout.sh/v1/page/markdown \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCOUT_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"<url>","max_chars":6000}'

Workflow

  1. Plan. Break the question into 3-5 focused sub-questions. Cover the distinct angles, don't overlap.
  2. Search. Run each sub-question through search. For a hard or broad question, set "depth":"deep" so Scout runs a multi-step search itself.
  3. Read. Scrape the 2-3 most relevant results per sub-question to Markdown. Prefer primary sources over aggregators.
  4. Synthesize. Write the answer grounded only in what you read. Cite each claim with the source URL. Where sources disagree or you came up short, say so instead of guessing.

Notes

  • Keep a running list of the URLs you actually used; put them at the end as a numbered Sources list.
  • If a page fails to scrape, skip it and note the gap rather than inventing the content.
  • Don't pad. A tight, sourced answer beats a long one.

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